Warehouse assessment in a single tour M.B.M. de Koster RSM Erasmus University PO Box 1738 3000 DR Rotterdam Netherlands Tel. +31-10-4081719 Fax: +31-10-4089014 rkoster@rsm.nl 1 Warehouse assessment in a single tour Abstract This paper presents an assessment method for warehouses based on a single facility tour and some Q&A. The method helps managers and students that visit a facility to get more information from tour visits through a simple and rapid assessment form. Since its inception
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In Everything Stuck to is a fictitious frame story written by Raymond Carter. The story focuses mainly on a small family of three and goes over many topics such as identity‚ commitment‚ and responsibility. In the beginning of the story‚ a woman wants to know what it was like when she was a kid. She is unnamed‚ along with the rest of the main character in the story‚ causing an unknown identity‚ and wants to know more about when she was younger‚ maybe to help her sense of identity. The father in the
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Popular Mechanics by Raymond Carver starts out with symbolism. “Early that day the weather turned and the snow was melting into dirty water.. Cars slushed by on the street outsider‚ where it was getting dark. But it was getting dark on the inside too.” With these few opening sentences‚ you can immediately tell that something “dark” is going to take place in the story. The picture went from snow‚ which in my personal opinion represents happiness‚ beauty‚ light‚ and purity (white is pure)‚ to dirty
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Being Single and Being Married When I was twenty years old‚ my mother told me that it was times for me to get married. I replied to my mother whenever I succeed in life and able and anxious to protect our family‚ I am going to think about having a home of their own. Not only I but also people who is living in today’s society‚ tends to being single or married later. However‚ living in every situation has every its own advantages and disadvantages. There are some differences that I know between being
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“Out of All Them Bright Stars” is a story written by Nancy Kress. The story pays much attention to the small-mindedness of discrimination that has engulfed the modern society. She has highlighted the discrimination and prejudice that many people experience as a result of their skin color and appearance. To prove her point‚ Kress uses the picture of a blue alien to represent her claims and also to depict an individual who is unfairly discriminated based on the color of the skin. It is‚ however‚ not
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Reader Response One: Responding to “My Father’s Life‚” by Raymond Carver The last paragraph of this essay is my favorite by far‚ “…in their beautiful voices out of my childhood. Raymond.” The author of this story made it so tangible the dislike Raymond Jr. had for his birth name that it felt like a true revelation when the character finally embraced it. To hear his father’s name echo as his own name and to enjoy it leaves the reader with the same sense of happiness. The author of this essay
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Bright paint limited Bright paint limited‚ situated in Punjab‚ is a large wholeseller of industrial paints. The company sells paints mostly to small retailer in cities and towns of northern states. About 10 % of sales are made directly to the public on case basis. For meeting its working capital requirement‚ the company has a cash credit limit from state bank of India. However‚ it has been recently facing a liquidity problem. In its cash credit amount‚ the company has an overdraft balance of Rs
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Summary of Cathedral On the surface Raymond Carver’s‚ Cathedral is nothing more than a story of acceptance. The story takes place in New York around the 1980’s. The principle characters include: The Narrator who is a jealous husband‚ Robert a blind man who is kindhearted and the Narrator’s wife who is a lonely woman looking for attention. The story begins when an old friend of the Narrator’s wife‚ Robert‚ was coming to visit. The Narrator’s wife used to work for Robert when she lived in Seattle
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Most people never have to find their inner strength. People can go through life without having to be strong for someone else or themselves because they have someone to lean on. In “All the Bright Places”‚ Violet and Finch have no one to lean on‚ until they meet each other. Violet and Finch have no one to share their struggles with‚ they feel alone in this world and because of that they can feel lonely and suicidal. In this book‚ one of the main themes is strength. Strength is shown in this book in
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BEING DIFFERENT‚ BEING UNPOPULAR In the world there are a lot of people‚ but nobody is the same. Every person looks different‚ maybe he has a black skin‚ green hair‚ is blind or deaf‚ but all humans have positive and negative characteristics. In small social groups‚ such as a normal class in school‚ differences are very clearly visible. Some children have better possibilities to study and have a lot of expensive things. If somebody of majority of schoolmates does not wear costly clothes or does
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